A large billboard along a major road in Jerusalem, which once praised President Joe Biden, now celebrates the victory of President-elect Donald Trump: “Welcome back Dear friend!” it reads, above a smiling photograph of Trump.
In October 2023, the same billboard featured Biden with an American flag and an Israeli flag, with the simple word “Thanks!” Israelis were grateful for Biden’s visit and weapons supplies in the aftermath of the October 7 terror attack.
But as Biden began more critical of Israel, and tried to restrain its war effort, the image was taken down from the billboard, which is along Emek Refaim Street, a heavily American area of Jerusalem known as the German Colony.
The Trump billboard recalls some of the laudatory street decorations at the time of the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem in 2018, when locals were effusive in their praise of the…
